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Doug Ohlson

Doug Ohlson (1936 - 2010) was active/lived in New York, Iowa.  Doug Ohlson is known for Abstraction, minimal imagery.

The following is the artist's obituary from the New York Times:

Doug Ohlson, Painter of Vivid Abstracts, Dies at 73
By Roberta Smith, published: July 23, 2010

It could be said that Doug Ohlson's determination to be a painter came out of the blue. He was born in the middle of the Great Depression in Cherokee, Iowa, 50 miles east of the Missouri River.  His father, a farmer and the son of a Swedish immigrant, expected his three sons to carry on the family tradition.

But Mr. Ohlson had other ideas, inspired in part by a plentitude of flat terrain and open sky that was extreme even in a region known for them.  In a catalog essay on Mr. Ohlson, the art historian E. C. Goossen noted the possible effect of the changing sky during the unending chores of farm life on the artist's passion for color.  "One can imagine yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red-orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black," Mr. Goossen wrote, "a fre   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3903 characters.]  Artist bio

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